Re: configure ldap + cyrus sasl on debian 6

Benin Technologies wrote:

thanks, you pointed me in the right direction : actually I haven't installed the init scripts yet, and I started manually slapd without telling it to listen to a socket

with slapd -h "ldap:/// ldapi:///" I now got a step further

Now I got: root@ldap:/tmp# ldapadd -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// -f ldap1.ldif SASL/EXTERNAL authentication started SASL username: gidNumber=0+uidNumber=0,cn=peercred,cn=external,cn=auth SASL SSF: 0 adding new entry "olcDatabase=hdb,cn=config" ldap_add: Insufficient access (50)

I must have missed something else...

I'm doing all this under root, so it shouldn't be a question of file permission

Sounds reasonable.

Maybe you have an old config in place? Perhaps with some access control?